“I don’t know why you don’t consider web development a ‘programming’ job. My favorite language is C and I develop in it for my own projects, but I’ve had just a

“I don’t know why you don’t consider web development a ‘programming’ job. My favorite language is C and I develop in it for my own projects, but I’ve had just as much challenging work in designing PHP applications.” Not to put words in the OP’s mouth, but I for one find that web development usually involves software engineering challenges more than programming ones. By that I mean that you don’t necessarily get to solve interesting technical problems, though there are certainly plenty of architectural and process problems to solve. Some people, myself included, feel much more engaged when there’s something hard to figure out, rather than when there’s just a lot of effort to be put in. It all depends on what you like to do and what feels legitimate to you.